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Cultural Realms of the Modern World
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Activity 2 - Label Realms
Chapter 2
Roots and Meaning of CultureComponents of CultureInteraction of People and EnvironmentRoots of CultureSeeds of ChangeCulture HearthsThe Structure of CultureCulture ChangeContact between Regions
What is Culture?
• Regional differences that are the essence of Human Geography
• Culture can be visible and invisible
• What are the different elements of culture?
Definition of Culture
• Culture is the specialized behavioral social patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems that summarize a group of people’s learned way of life.
Culture Displays a Social Structure
• Framework of roles and interrelationships of individuals and groups.
• Individuals learn and adhere to the rules not only of the culture but of specific subcultures to which he/she belongs.
Components (structure) of Culture
• Culture Traits
• Culture Complex
• Culture Region
• Culture Realm
• Globalization
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Culture Traits
• Smallest item of culture-building block of culture.
• Learned behavior ranging from language spoken to tools to games.
• They can be objects, techniques, beliefs, or attitudes.
Culture Complex
• Individual cultural traits that are functionally interrelated.
• Examples include: religious complexes, business behavior complexes, sports complexes.
Culture Regions
• Culture traits and complexes have areal (spatial) extent.
• Used to show the spatial extent of similar cultural areas.
• Examples - Cajun Region
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Culture Realm
• Cultural regions showing similar complexes and landscapes are grouped to form a larger area.
Cultural Realms of the Modern World
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Structure of Culture
Two schools - different terms similar ideas
Cultural Landscape - Carl SauerRead the passage and draw a graphic illustrating the
main ideas of the passage and the relationships between the ideas.
• “The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result. Under the influence of a given culture, itself changing through time, the landscape undergoes development, passing through phases, and probably reaching ultimately the end of its cycle of development. With the introduction of a different -that is an alien- culture, a rejuvenation of the cultural sets in, or a new landscape is superimposed on remnants of an older one.”
Sample Cultural Landscape Graphic
